[Nautilus-list] Re: what's happening to Nautilus, other packages (Eazel)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

begin  Ian McKellar quotation:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:33:14PM -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> > 	gnome-vfs -- Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net> is going to take over as 
> > gnome-vfs maintainer. The good news is that gnome-vfs is already working 
> > as part of the GNOME 2 platform. Short term priorities for gnome-vfs 
> > include filling out the documentation for programmers and finishing a new 
> > API for handling authentication (done by Mike Fleming). I'd also like to 
> > see a Samba module and an ssh module to fill out the kinds of file systems 
> > that gnome-vfs works with, but we don't have any volunteers for that yet.
> 
> Right now I'm hacking on SSL support and a couple of other things to let
> people use gnome-vfs as the best backend for all browser-type applications.
> I've got some other ideas my sleeve for the GNOME 2.0 time-frame that I
> can't think of right now ;-)
> 
> Let me know if you've got some ideas for what we can do to make gnome-vfs
> better.
> 

HTTP POST support. It's not totally obvious to me how to design the
API for that. But it's worth noting that the pipe: module has
semantics more like POST than GET, really.

Also, replace uses of Method in the API with Module (or perhaps the
slightly less accurate but perhaps more clear Protocol or
ProtocolHandler) , because it's kind of confusing as it is. (http is a
protocol or URI scheme, GET is a method).

Regards,

Maciej